If so, it will keep her in the family as it were--and good luck to you.

Only--" "Only what ?" I asked anxiously.
"To be honest, Arbuthnot, I don't think that there will be real good luck for any one of us over this woman--not in the ordinary sense, I mean.

The whole business is too strange and superhuman.

Is she quite a woman, and could she really marry a man as others do ?" "It is curious that you should talk like that," I said uneasily.

"I thought that you had made up your mind that the whole business was either illusion or trickery--I mean, the odd side of it." "If it is illusion, Arbuthnot, then a man cannot marry an illusion.